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Zensar Technologies Named Extreme Networks Diamond Level Partner

The Company Was Recognized as Extreme Top Platinum Revenue Partner for 2013

WESTBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwired - March 24, 2014) - Zensar Technologies, a leading software services and infrastructure management services provider, today announced that it has been elevated to a Diamond Level partner by Extreme Networks, Inc. Zensar earned this prestigious and highest level of partnership status after receiving Extreme Network's Top Platinum Revenue Partner Award for 2013 in recognition of significant contributions to Extreme's revenue and strategic products growth. This is the third year that Zensar has been recognized as an Extreme Top Channel Partner in North America.

As a Diamond Level partner, Zensar has proven capabilities in delivering a multitude of aspects of Extreme Networks' related services including assessments and design, implementation and migration, as well as the management of Extreme Networks' high-performance solutions with Extreme Certified and highly experienced engineers. Zensar's Diamond Level partnership showcases a strong commitment to the full lifecycle of Extreme Networks' solutions, including achievement of training and certification requirements.

Zensar was recognized at Extreme Network's 2013 global partner conference with the Top Platinum Revenue Award for North America. The award recognized Zensar for achieving the highest revenue growth at 177% during Extreme's Fiscal Year 2013.

"We are very pleased to be honored once again by Extreme Networks with a Top Partner award and an elevated partner status," said Ankit Ghosh, Senior Vice President and Head of Global IM Practices at Zensar. "This recognition highlights the expertise of our team in delivering the highest level of services to our customers. Our partnership with Extreme Networks allows Zensar the ability to deliver an enhanced portfolio of network solutions that address our customers' mission-critical data center and network infrastructure needs."

"We have a long-standing relationship with Zensar and can consistently rely on their expertise and breadth of technologies to support our high-performance solutions," said Theresa Caragol, Global Vice President of Channels and Partners at Extreme Networks. "We are happy to once again recognize Zensar as a top partner and value their continued commitment to driving the benefits of network connectivity solutions with their clients."

Zensar's strong revenue growth with Extreme Networks was a result of proven and successful implementations at leading enterprise organizations:

A national research university with nearly 17,000 students worked with Zensar to implement Extreme Networks' switching products to deliver network access throughout their three campuses encompassing 3 million square feet and 125 acres. The university was challenged with an aging network that needed to be replaced due to end of life hardware, and they were seeking a hardware platform that did not need constant upgrades on a regular basis to support new releases and new features. Extreme's high-end Black Diamond Layer 3 switches interconnect the three campus cores over 10GB and 40GB fiber links, and Summit series switches are utilized for end-user access. The Extreme solution provides the university with a value-add benefit as it uses a single operating system (XOS) for ease of administration and trouble shooting of the 300-switch network.

A global cloud based application provider with business dependent on 100 percent network uptime turned to Zensar and Extreme Networks when they needed to reinforce their network and replace outdated equipment to promote reliability for its mission critical business offering. The client started by upgrading one data center with Extreme Summit series switches that enable improved uptime, manageability and operational efficiency. The client needed to be able to move to a 100% uptime data center model and leveraged Extreme's Multi-Switch Link Aggregation (M-LAG) capabilities. In addition to the critical need for full availability, the client realized flexibility to implement non-blocking networks; no wasted bandwidth as both links are active; and high levels of resilience and reliability with redundant paths available at all times.

Zensar partners with clients to holistically align IT programs and goals with enterprise strategy to deliver flexible solutions that drive business processes as well as improve the availability, reliability and performance of Data Center, Security and Compliance, and End User Computing infrastructure. Utilizing its multi-shore methodology, Zensar delivers best-in-class IT services through its global delivery centers including Westborough, MA; Slough, UK; Veenendaal, The Netherlands; Shanghai, China; Pune, India and Hyderabad, India.

Safe Harbor Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

Zensar Technologies is among the top 20 software services providers from India. The world's first enterprise-wide SEI CMM Level 5 Company and now certified as a CMMI Level 3 Company, Zensar has industry expertise that spans Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Banking Financial Services and Insurance. An RPG Group company, Zensar has 6,500+ employees with sales and operations presence across US, Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Singapore, China and Australia. The Company delivers comprehensive services for mission-critical applications, enterprise applications, business intelligence, CRM, Business Process Management and in new technologies like Social Media, Mobility Analytics and Cloud (SMAC). Zensar also provides innovative Infrastructure Management solutions that enable leading companies worldwide to optimize, secure, manage and support their mission-critical infrastructure. Using its multi-shore capabilities, Zensar combines expert consulting, integration and support services with world-class customer service to help IT organizations reduce costs, increase efficiencies and manage risk better. The Company has developed tools and methodologies, including the proprietary Solution BluePrint (SBP), which enables its clients with innovative business solutions and a rapid 'go-to-market' capability. The Company supports Fortune 500 clients with software business solutions to simplify, optimize and accelerate their business helping them compete in the digital economy.

Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) is setting the new standard for superior customer experience by delivering network-powered innovation and market leading service and support. The company delivers high-performance switching and routing products for data center and core-to-edge networks, wired/wireless LAN access, and unified network management and control. Our award-winning solutions include software-defined networking (SDN), cloud and high-density Wi-Fi, BYOD and enterprise mobility, identity access management and security. Extreme Networks is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has more than 12,000 customers in over 80 countries.